Square Enix has just released Final Fantasy VI on iOS, following on from itsAndroid release last month. If you have any interest at all in the series, or in Japanese role-playing games, you should buy it.
Final Fantasy VI is a true work of art. Originally released on the SNES in 1994, it was the pinnacle of the 2D Japanese role-playing game era. While The Secret of Mana and its Japan-only sequel may have had fancier graphics, nothing could touch the sixth instalment of this long-running franchise for sheer scale and depth.
The story – with multiple central characters and a plot that draws inspiration from sources as varied as steampunk, Star Wars and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past – is light years ahead of what most games of the time had achieved. The limited expressive palette of the 2D sprites was more than compensated for by the script and Nobuo Uematsu’s masterful soundtrack that expressed emotions through music that the graphics at the time simply couldn’t convey.
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